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Small employers warn that ‘exhausted funds’ threaten the future of the apprenticeship system

The Federation of Small Businesses has chosen GCSE results day to call on the new Secretary of State, Gavin…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Huge win for France as they secure two-thirds of votes to host WorldSkills 2023

France has won the right to host WorldSkills 2023 by a landslide after receiving more than double the votes…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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WorldSkills2019 pre-competition: Team UK digs in Kazan

Team UK got the chance to see the WorldSkills flag relay, leave a permanent sign of their skills, and…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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WorldSkills 2019: What you need to know as Team UK makes it to Kazan

Today, Team UK fly out to WorldSkills 2019 in Russia.  Here’s our short, but handy explainer about the competition,…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Chartered Institution for FE in breach of bye-laws after ‘minor technical error’ delays accounts’ publication

The Chartered Institution for Further Education looks to have broken its bye-laws set by the Privy Council after failing…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Ofsted watch: ‘Insufficient’ week for new private providers

Nearly half of the new providers which have had Ofsted reports published this week have made ‘insufficient progress’ in…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon


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Licence fees to almost double for cash-strapped UTCs

The new chief executive of the Baker Dearing Trust has defended the decision to nearly double the membership fee…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Ofsted criticised for using ‘small’ apprentice sample in damaging monitoring report

A provider has hit out at Ofsted after the inspectorate sampled just a fraction of its apprentices to decide…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Cash-strapped college group finally appoints permanent chief executive

A troubled college group that has been run by an interim chief executive for nearly a year has appointed…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

High Court places West Kent and Ashford College into administration

West Kent and Ashford College has been put into education administration, making it the second college to fall under…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Second college to go through insolvency regime

West Kent and Ashford College will apply to enter education administration tomorrow. The embattled college is expected to follow…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Bulletin, News

A-level results 2019 | Live blog

A-level results day is here! Over 200,000 students studying the qualifications up and down the country will today find…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

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Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
Qualifications

Revealed: V Levels incoming as axe looms for BTECs

New qualifications set to launch as ‘third route’ between A-levels and T Levels

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, Long read

Colleges on the frontline of a divided nation

As social media algorithms fuel intolerance and binary thinking, college staff increasingly find themselves dealing with the fallout. Jessica…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Colleges, Long read

Alun Francis, chair of the Social Mobility Commission

Deprived areas need vision – not victimhood – to level up, and Social Mobility Commission chair Alun Francis is…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Long read, Prison education

The prison that’s offering hope for a new life upon release

‘We’re saving people’s lives as well as turning them around’

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill